11 OCTOBER 1845, Page 9

The Dublin Freeman of Thursday publishes a letter signed" A

Celt," and purporting to be written by the son of a Peer, who, having travelled, has come home a convert to Repeal. On this letter another journal observes—" Strictly speaking, there are but two or three Irish Peers of purely 'Celtic' origin :

Bryan Marquis of Thomond; O'Callaghan, Lord Lismore; and Viscount O'Neil Lord Thomond has no male issue ; Lord O'Neil is unmarried; but Lord Lismore has two sons, one of whom, the Honourable Cornelius O'Callaghan, sat for some time in Parliament as the Whig representative for Tipperary." Indeed, Mr. O'Callaghan was" a Whig and something more."